Pure Gold Mining - share monitoring

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Re: Pure Gold Mining - share monitoring

Post by BeautifulSunshine » Tue Sep 22 2020 6:06pm

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Re: Pure Gold Mining - share monitoring

Post by BeautifulSunshine » Thu Sep 24 2020 7:07pm

Of relevance to our holding of Pure Gold Mining (and to a lesser degree Ramsdens):

(There are some interesting infopic that I can't add to this thread, I've included the link so you can access them at your convenience)
By Justin Harper Business reporter, BBC News

23 September 2020

How much gold is there left to mine in the world?

Last month the price of gold hit a record high, pushing above $2,000 (£1,575) an ounce.

While this price rise was driven by gold traders, it begs the question about the supply of the precious metal, and when it will eventually run out.

Gold is in hot demand as an investment, a status symbol, and a key component in many electronic products.

But it's also a finite resource, and there will eventually come a stage when there is none left to be mined.
Peak gold

Experts talk about the concept of peak gold - when we have mined the most we ever can in any one year. Some believe we may have already reached that point.

Gold mine production totalled 3,531 tonnes in 2019, 1% lower than in 2018, according to the World Gold Council. This is the first annual decline in production since 2008.

"While the growth in mine supply may slow or decline slightly in the coming years, as existing reserves are exhausted, and new major discoveries become increasingly rare, suggesting that production has peaked may still be a little premature," says Hannah Brandstaetter, a spokesman for the World Gold Council.

Even when peak gold happens, experts say the years immediately after it are not likely to see a dramatic decrease in production. Instead, we could see a gradual depletion of output over a few decades.

"Mine production has flat-lined, and is likely on a downward trajectory, but not dramatically so," adds Ross Norman of MetalsDaily.com.

So how much is left?

Mining companies estimate the volume of gold that remains in the ground in two ways:

Reserves - gold that is economic to mine at the current gold price

Resources - gold that will potentially become economic to mine after further investigation, or at a higher price level

The volume of gold reserves can be calculated more accurately than resources, although this is still not an easy task.

The below-ground stock of gold reserves is currently estimated to be around 50,000 tonnes, according to the US Geological Survey.

To put that in perspective, around 190,000 tonnes of gold has been mined in total, although estimates do vary.

Based on these rough figures, there is about 20% still to be mined. But this is a moving target.

New technologies may make it possible to extract some known reserves that aren't currently economical to access.

The most recent innovations include big data, AI, and smart data mining, which can potentially optimise processes and bring down costs.

Robotics are already being used at some sites, and are expected to increasingly become standard technologies in mine exploration.

Biggest sources

The largest single source of gold in history has been the Witwatersrand Basin of South Africa. Witwatersrand accounts for roughly 30% of all the gold ever mined.

Other major sources of gold include the extremely deep Mponeng mine in China, the Super Pit and Newmont Boddington mines in Australia, Indonesia's Grasberg Mine, and mines in Nevada, US.

China is currently the world's biggest miner of gold, while Canada, Russia, and Peru are also major producers.

In terms of companies, Barrick Gold's majority-owned Nevada Gold Mines is the single largest gold-mining complex in the world, producing about 3.5 million ounces a year.

Though new gold mines are still being found, discoveries of large deposits are becoming increasingly rare, experts say.

As a result, most gold production currently comes from older mines that have been in use for decades.

Harder to mine?

Large-scale mining is extremely capital-intensive, employing lots of machinery and expertise to mine vast areas on and below the surface.

Today, around 60% of the world's mining operations are surface mines, while the remainder are underground ones.

"Mining is getting harder in the sense that many of the large, low-cost mines, and older ones such as in South Africa, are nearing exhaustion," adds Mr Norman.

"Chinese gold mines, on the other hand, are much smaller, and therefore have higher costs."

There are relatively few unexplored regions left for gold-mining, although possibly the most promising are in some of the more unstable parts of the world, such as in West Africa.
Record highs

Although gold prices hit a record high in August, this doesn't automatically translate into a rise in gold mining activity.

In fact, changes in gold mine production often lag changes in the gold price very significantly.

"Given the scale of operations involved, it takes time to alter mine plans in response to changes in external factors, such as the price of gold," adds Ms Brandstaetter.

Also, the record prices have happened during Covid-19 restrictions, making it harder to mine, as sites were closed or partially shutdown to curb the spread of the virus.

Price rises have actually been driven by the pandemic as investors view gold as a safer asset in times of economic uncertainty.

Unlikely places

While gold in the ground may be hard to quantify, it's not the only source. There is also gold on the moon.

However, the costs associated with mining it and transporting it back to earth are significantly higher than the value of the gold.

"Whilst it exists, it would never be economically meaningful to mine it," says space expert Sinead O'Sullivan. "You would lose an infinitely larger amount of money mining it than you would gain by selling it."

Similarly, there are some known gold deposits in Antarctica that may never be economical to mine, due to the continent's extreme weather conditions.

Gold is also scattered along the ocean floor, but is also considered uneconomic to mine.

One factor gold has on its side though is that, unlike other non-renewable resources like oil, it can be recycled. So we will never run out of gold, even when we can no longer mine it.

A large amount of gold is used in electronic products that are widely viewed as disposable, such as mobile phones. The amount of gold in the average phone is worth a few pounds.

Efforts to recycle gold extracted from electronic waste are already well under way.
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Re: Pure Gold Mining - share monitoring

Post by garindan » Fri Oct 09 2020 12:59pm

garindan wrote:
Sat Sep 19 2020 10:52am
garindan wrote:
Wed Sep 09 2020 11:33am
We really need to get to grips with what we are going to do with this share.

In my eyes there are two things that need to be established:

- what point we want to sell enough shares to cover the cost of our original holding (£1000) and leave the rest of that purchase amount to do their thing without us experiencing any loss at all

- what exit point are we looking at for the second batch of shares, bought to try and eliminate the losses experienced from the blue chip investments that did not go according to plan? See original post quote below:
garindan wrote:So the deed is done. Details of the purchase are as follows:

Quantity: 573
Buy price: 129.4500p
Commission: £7.50
Total: £749.25
Actual average price inc. commission: 130.8p

Taking the above into account....

Bluechips cost us:£1818.19
Sale funds, including accrued dividends before sale: £737.71 + £251.56 = £989.27
Deficit: £828.92 (45.6%)

Coverting this to Pure Gold Mining target sale price:

-> ~191p - if we target recouping the same percentage as lost from the original investment
-> ~276p - if we target recouping the entire monetary loss from the original investment

If we get to be where we want to be with PGM it is entirely possible any movement from the lower target to the higher target could come quickly, as is the nature of results from gold mining pours. However, we also need to consider that we have the original PGM holding. We need to discuss exactly what our targets are with this too, now we have made this second investment. A new thread will be opened to do this.

Let's see where this takes us - our bravest and boldest move yet.
Can we get some discussion going on what our targets are on this one for our original holding and the second holding purchased after the sale of the bluechips? With a rumoured takeover bid on the horizon (who knows) it would be worth us having thoughts on that and for if that does not happen.

Does anyone else have an opinion on this other than me? :shock:
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Re: Pure Gold Mining - share monitoring

Post by BeautifulSunshine » Fri Oct 09 2020 6:19pm

Yes, let the drilling start and then the mystery buyer buys and we sell because we have to with both a handsome profit and game changing profit.
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Re: Pure Gold Mining - share monitoring

Post by BeautifulSunshine » Tue Oct 27 2020 6:38pm

Pure Gold Mining share price has shot up because:
27/10/2020
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Three takeaways: (1) Astonishing grades (2) The normally reserved CEO referring to Pure Gold becoming one of Canada's "iconic" gold producers and (3) still on track for first pour by end of calendar 2020 I particularly like iconic as Darrin knows that is a direct comparison to Barrick ($57bn), Kirkland Lake ($14bn) and Kinross ($12bn) so he has great expectations of where the market cap will go here as they mine what they have, drill more to prove up the oz's
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Re: Pure Gold Mining - share monitoring

Post by garindan » Tue Oct 27 2020 7:28pm

Yes, a good day for Pure Gold today. Hopefully the start of a progressive price rise.
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Re: Pure Gold Mining - share monitoring

Post by burwin » Mon Nov 02 2020 3:32pm

I think we sit and watch this share into the new year...
Gold is good place to be until covid is tamed, which will not be until mid-late 2021.
Holding so much gold is great for me as it offsets my exposure to equity (we'll partially).
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Re: Pure Gold Mining - share monitoring

Post by garindan » Sat Nov 14 2020 12:17pm

First pour is now only a few weeks away, so the next month or so should be quite interesting. News has been a bit quiet of late but this is not necessarily an issue. The pour is where things should start to tell their own story, along with new drilling results.
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Re: Pure Gold Mining - share monitoring

Post by garindan » Mon Nov 16 2020 10:04am

Pure Gold Mining CEO holding a webinar on the 18th November. You can register for view on Zoom or use YouTube. Details can be found here.
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